Presidential candidate of the Accord Party, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, may now possess a strategic advantage in one important respect: he has become the opposition figure whose political trajectory is generating increasing curiosity, closer scrutiny and more intensive political calculations within the ruling establishment. Chuks Okocha writes.
With less than a month to the commencement of full-scale campaigns for Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election, political calculations are rapidly changing.
While much of the public discourse has focused on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Coalition (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi, a quieter but increasingly significant political development is unfolding around the presidential ambition of Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim.
Across political circles in Abuja and beyond, there is a growing view that Olawepo-Hashim’s resurgence represents a different and potentially more complicated electoral challenge for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Unlike Atiku and Obi, whose political strengths, weaknesses and voting blocs are already well understood, Olawepo-Hashim is gradually emerging as a political variable whose trajectory is still evolving.
